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L LIBBY. SHIRT CABINET.

Patented July 14, 1885.

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JAMES L. LIBBY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

SHIRT-CABINET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 322,303, dated July 14,1885.

Application filed August 20, 1884. (No motlell) T rtZZ whom it mayconcern:

, Be it known that I, JAMES L. LIBBY, acitizen of the United States.doing business at No. 497 Broadway, New York, in the county and State ofNew York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Shirt-Cabinets,for which I have obtained no Letters Patent whatever, of which thefollowing is a specification.

My invention relates .to cabinets intended to be used for shirts, and isadapted-for the shipment and the sale of shirts directly therefrom bythe shirt retailer, and also for th private keeping of shirts as well.

The objects of my invention are to provide a tasteful box, inclosure, orreceptacle for shirts, in which they may be securely placed forshipment, in and from which they may be exhibited for sale with thegreatest convenience and effect, by which the shirts may be protected atthe same time from becoming soiled and defaced, and in which gentlemenmay privately keep these articles-0t personal wear with the same objectsin view.

I attain these objects by the arrangement and adjustment of parts shownin the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is aperspective viewshowing the front, top, and end of the cabinet. Fig. 2 is the same withthe two lower leaves, one dropped and the other partially dropped. Fig.3 is ahorizontal sectional View, and Fig. 4 is a partialinside view.

Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

The cabinet Ais provided with, say, four shelves, S S, 850., which areeach divided into five compartments, 0 G, &c., each compart ment beingof suitable depth, width, and height to contain a half-dozen folded andlaundried shirts withoutrumpling or too close contact of the same withthe sides of the compartment. The compartments are, say, eighteen andone-half inches deep, seven and one-half inches wide, and seven incheshigh.

Instead of four, two shelves may be used, having five compartments each,or. any other number of shelves and compartments may be adopted. I

Using four shelves, as described, I put ten dozen shirts in a cabinet,and, using two shelves, five dozen. Each shelf is provided with a hingeddrop-leaf or closing-piece, L, suitably provided with handles H, and alatch,

T, for holding itin place. These closing-pieces L, when hinged as shownin Fig. 3, serve as shelves to support the goods when drawn out of thecompartments for exhibition and sale.

The compartments are incl osed permanently on all sides, except thefront, so as to exclude all dust in those directions, and when the leafL is elevated and in place there is little if any chance for the dust toenterand settle upon the shirts, as now happens .in the case of theordinary drawer. In fact the shirts are more effectually protected inthese compartments than they are in an ordinary shirt-box, whichuncovers completely, and may admit dust on all sides between the box andits cover.

This cabinet is a shelfcabinet, and is intended to be placed in thestore of the retailer, when in use by him, upon a shelf or tableelevated to a suitable height to allow convenient inspection andhandling of the leaves and of the contents of the cabinet.

Dropping a leaf, L, the salesman may take any shirt, the folded edge ofwhich is thus exposed to view, by the tag, draw it out-,cxhibit it,slide it back, and draw out another at will without disturbing the topshirt, if desired, and without the least danger of soiling or rubbingany settled dust into the bosoms of the shirts; and in this way thewhole contents of the cabinet may be conveniently examined, and also beprotected during the selling of the same.

I make these cabinets of ash, oak, walnut, or some other hard wood,withtasteful carving,

beading, or other ornamentations, and when their contents have beensold, instead of destroying or burning up the shipping-package, as isnow universally done, they are still of value and desirable as articlesof furniture, and may be sold to customers as such, atsuch prices as toreimburse the retailer or return him a part of his expenditure; or theymay be kept as desirable articles of store furniture, whether for use assuch, as required for other like goods or for sale on breaking up, orwhenever desired.

In shipping, these cabinets are protected by open packing-frames, or bysome other simple and cheap covering, and may be set up in place withouthandling or touching a single article of their contents, the freq lentcause of injury to laundried shirts.

In the hands of private parties the shirt- I I claim as myinventioncabinet will be found equally convenient for A shirt-shippingbox and cabinet, A, prostoring laundried shirts, undershirts, drawers,vided with shelves S, horizontal and vertical and other like articles ofunderwear, properly series of compartments 0, and drop leaves or 5folded in a way to protect the contents, afford shelves L, as shown anddescribed.

ready inspection and access and keep such 7 articles in admirable order,each class of arti- JAMES LTBBX" cles by itself, so as to facilitateselection and the packing of trunks or hand-bags on the eve 10 oftraveling trips.

WVitnesses:

EBEN DEMAREST, JAMES A. SKILTON.

